PDLP Chapter 157 The Truth Revealed, Major Human Trafficking Case Solved
Chapter 157 The Truth Revealed, Major Human Trafficking Case Solved
Uncle Li sighed and shook his head, saying:
"I never would have guessed... Old Wang actually did something so heinous... We were all fooled by him for three whole years... We were even talking badly about Zhang Nan behind her back... What a terrible thing..."
"Yes," another villager said guiltily.
"Looking back now, I feel so sorry for them, mother and daughter..."
The live stream chat was in an uproar, and the server almost crashed.
[Holy crap! It's human trafficking! I'm about to throw up!]
This family of three is utterly inhuman! They trafficked women and then murdered them! They must be sentenced to death! Execute them immediately!
[Zhang Nan is so pitiful! She went to teach in a rural area, but she was trafficked, abused, murdered, and even after her death, she was slandered!]
Thankfully, Mr. Shen was there! Otherwise, she would never have been exonerated! Her family would never have known where she was!
[How does Mr. Shen know everything? Is he really a god? He even knows everything Zhang Nan went through in the past—it's unbelievable!]
[Wang Qiang just said he was going to kill Mr. Shen's entire family, but Mr. Shen made him kneel down with just one look! That was so satisfying!]
I'm devastated! Zhang Nan had such a bright future, but it was all ruined because of human traffickers. It's such a tragedy...
Jiang Xinlan looked at Shen Yu and said softly, "You knew all along, didn't you?"
Shen Yu nodded, looking in the direction of the old locust tree, and said softly, "She's been muttering these things. It's just that no one could hear her before."
That evening, the police interrogated Mr. Wang and his family of three separately.
At first, the three remained defiant, insisting that it was an accidental killing and refusing to admit to human trafficking.
Later, based on the clues provided by Shen Yu, the police focused on breaking through Liu's psychological defenses.
Old Mrs. Liu was elderly and had a weak mental capacity. After being interrogated by the police for three hours, and hearing that the police had contacted the Suzhou police and would soon find out Zhang Nan's identity, she finally couldn't take it anymore and confessed to all her crimes in tears.
Just as Shen Yu said, Zhang Nan was trafficked here by human traffickers six years ago.
At that time, Wang Qiang was already thirty years old. Because he had a limp and his family was poor, he had been unable to find a wife.
Old Wang was extremely anxious, asking around for matchmakers, but no one was willing to marry their daughter to him.
Later, a human trafficker nicknamed "Third Brother" found him and said there was a young and beautiful female college student who would obey him for 30,000 yuan.
Old Wang scraped together money from all over the village, even selling his pigs, and finally raised 30,000 yuan to buy Zhang Nan back.
When Zhang Nan first arrived here, she cried every day and begged them to let her go home, saying that her parents would give them more money.
But the Wang family wouldn't listen. They locked her in a small dark room and chained her feet to prevent her from leaving.
Zhang Nan's first escape occurred three months after she was bought. Taking advantage of a moment when the Wang family wasn't paying attention, she broke the iron chain and ran away.
But she had only run halfway up the mountain when Wang Qiang caught her and brought her back. Wang Qiang broke her left leg, locked her in a small dark room, and starved her for three days and three nights.
From then on, the Wang family kept a closer eye on her. Zhang Nan became pregnant and gave birth to Daya. The Wang family thought that having a child would make her resigned to her fate, so they relaxed their surveillance. But Zhang Nan never gave up the idea of escaping.
Three years ago, on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, it was raining heavily. Taking advantage of the fact that the Wang family was asleep, Zhang Nan once again broke the iron chain and tried to escape by climbing over the wall. But as soon as she climbed onto the top of the wall, she was discovered by Wang Qiang, who was getting up in the middle of the night.
Wang Qiang dragged her back home, and the three of them beat and kicked her.
Zhang Nan went from crying and begging for mercy at the beginning, to being on the verge of death, and finally fell silent.
They were terrified when they discovered Zhang Nan was dead.
To cover up their crime, they buried her under the old locust tree in the yard overnight.
The next morning, they took one of Zhang Nan's clothes and ran to the village entrance, saying they saw Zhang Nan carrying a bag and running away with a boss from out of town.
The whole village believed them for three whole years.
Based on Liu's confession, the police quickly identified the third human trafficker.
The third brother's real name is Zhao San. He is 42 years old and is a key member of a cross-provincial human trafficking gang.
This gang operated for ten years with a clear division of labor, forming a complete industrial chain from abduction and transportation to trafficking. They trafficked dozens of women and children to remote mountainous areas across the country.
The police immediately set up a special task force and rushed to Zhao San's hiding place overnight.
After three days and three nights of surveillance, the police finally captured Zhao San, who was preparing to escape, in the early hours of the morning.
After Zhao San was apprehended, the police followed the leads and dismantled this large-scale human trafficking gang spanning three provinces, arresting 17 suspects and rescuing 23 trafficked women and 10 children, the youngest of whom was only 5 months old.
The news of the dismantling of the human trafficking gang caused a sensation across the internet.
# Shen Yu exposes a human trafficking and murder case#
#Police bust cross-provincial human trafficking ring#
#Zhang Nan's injustice has been redressed#
The three terms simultaneously topped the trending search list.
Countless netizens left messages on Weibo, apologizing to Shen Yu and paying tribute to Zhang Nan.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Shen. I misunderstood you and thought you were indifferent. You are a true hero."
"Thank you, Mr. Shen, for not only clearing Zhang Nan's name but also saving so many people who have been trafficked."
"Rest in peace, Miss Zhang Nan. Justice may have been delayed, but it was not denied in the end."
"I hope that all those who have been trafficked can wait until the day they can go home."
"Severely punish human traffickers! Severely punish buyers! No demand, no harm!"
Just then, an unexpected call came to the program team's office.
The person making the call was a college student named Zhao Yu, who is 18 years old and studying at a university in Shanghai.
He cried uncontrollably on the phone, saying that when he was watching the live replay of "Mountain Dwelling Years," he saw the silver bracelet engraved with the character "Nan" and plum blossom patterns. It was a bracelet that his grandmother had made for her two daughters.
His mother, Zhang Mei, had one exactly the same, with the character "Mei" engraved on it.
"My aunt's name is Zhang Nan," Zhao Yu said, choking back tears. "Six years ago, during summer vacation, she went to teach in a mountainous area and then disappeared."
We searched for her for a whole year, reported her to the police, and posted countless missing person notices, but there was still no news.
My mother cries every day, and my grandmother almost went blind from crying so much because she missed my aunt.
"When I saw that bracelet just now, I recognized it immediately; it's my aunt's bracelet..."
After receiving the call, Wang Kai immediately contacted Zhao Yu and sent him high-resolution photos of the silver bracelet and the location where the remains were found.
Zhao Yu immediately sent the photo to his mother, Zhang Mei.
The moment Zhang Mei saw the photo, she fainted on the spot.
After waking up, she took her bracelet and compared it repeatedly, finally confirming that the bracelet belonged to her sister, Zhang Nan.
My younger sister is the youngest daughter in the family. She, as the eldest sister, is more than ten years older than her. It can be said that she and my mother raised my younger sister single-handedly.
She had a very deep affection for her younger sister.
"It's Nannan... It really is Nannan..." Zhang Mei clutched the bracelet, crying her heart out.
"We've been looking for her for six years... We never imagined... we never imagined she would... that she would be murdered..."
The next morning, Zhang Nan's parents, her eldest sister Zhang Mei, and her nephew Zhao Yu rushed over from Suzhou overnight.
As soon as she got off the bus, Zhang Nan's mother collapsed to the ground, hugging a tree by the roadside, weeping uncontrollably.
"My dear Nannan... Mommy is late... Mommy has come to take you home... Why didn't you wait for Mommy...?"
Zhang Nan's father, an elderly man with gray hair, stood to the side, trembling all over, tears streaming silently down his face, unable to utter a single word.
Zhang Mei also cried uncontrollably. Zhao Yu, supporting his grandmother and mother, said to Wang Kai with red eyes:
"Director Wang, where is Mr. Shen? I want to thank him... Thank you for helping us find my aunt... If it weren't for him, we would never have known where my aunt was, or how much she had suffered..."